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Voices

Vernon’s strategy can preserve heritage

By
Norma A. Manning
Wednesday, October 26, 2016 — Issue 380

Vernon should focus on baseload power.

Decentralized intermittent generation gobbles up open lands. Vernon should preserve its history of agricultural and open lands.

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Planet Hank is at our door

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Anne Henshaw

Anne Henshaw is an independent educational consultant and advocate for disability rights. CHESTER-On Oct. 18,

Danger to the Constitution

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Laurie Goldman

TRENTON, MAINE-Jo Schneiderman's piece on self-censorship is one of the most important and precise framings...

We must do more to stop U.S. complicity in Gaza

By
Steve Wangh

BRATTLEBORO-Our senators, Peter Welch and Bernie Sanders, and our Representative, Becca Balint, have been in...

Sweat and ash: the spirit of community in Windham

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Michael Pelton

Michael Pelton, a farm owner and operator and engaged community member, serves on the Windham...

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Brattleboro Retreat CEO to step down in April

By
Liora Engel-Smith
Wednesday, March 16, 2022 — Issue 655

The Brattleboro Retreat's chief executive is leaving for a job in the Boston area. Louis Josephson joined the Brattleboro Retreat in January 2016, according to the nonprofit's website. The Retreat's executive vice president, Linda Rossi, will replace him as interim CEO in early April, the chair of the Retreat's board said Tuesday. Josephson did not respond to a request for comment Tuesday afternoon, but board Chair Tom Huebner said the staff learned of the news Tuesday afternoon. Rossi has been...

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Voices

By hiring canvasser, four people bought a place on the ballot

By
Steven K-Brooks
Wednesday, February 5, 2020 — Issue 547

The fellow who collected hundreds of signatures to amend the Brattleboro Town Charter to replace the Selectboard form of governance with that of a mayoral form of governance, told me that four local businessmen paid him. When he had collected enough signatures and it was his last day tabling at the Co-op, he joked that now he would be out of work. To my knowledge, past initiatives have made it onto the ballot only by the dedication of unpaid volunteers.

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Arts

Rock Voices returns to Brattleboro for AIDS Project benefit

Wednesday, January 6, 2016 — Issue 338

Director Tony Lechner invites one and all to join Rock Voices, the area's only community rock chorus, for a warm winter evening of rock and pop classics like you've never heard them before. The concert will take place at Centre Congregational Church, located at 193 Main St., on Friday, Jan. 8, at 7 p.m. Doors open at 6 p.m. The group will also be holding a 50/50 raffle at intermission, as 50 percent of the proceeds will benefit the AIDS...

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